The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don't die

Re:The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don't die by TeMPOraL on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:06AM (#37021106)

> You can tell how good a job corporatists and statists did at eliminating homemaker by observing how most moderns fruoously rebuke even the mere suggestion that the role was A Good Thing.

Indeed. Ironically, the effect is to be expected, and in every other situation people would call it obvious. Give everyone $1k in unconditional basic income? Obviously, the market will quickly readjust prices to consume surplus income. But then, get people to run two-income households, and be surprised the prices readjusted so that single-income household is no longer a possibility?

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Re:The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don't die by fragmede on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:54PM (#37023969)

The sci-fi story solution I've come up with is we put everyone into a lottery. Everyone draws a number. Evens get their salary doubled, odds are no longer allowed to work. Everyone find a partner.

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Re:The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don't die by user982 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:52PM (#37025268)

Evens will pair up with evens to quadruple their unit income (why attach yourself to a deadweight odd?), with odds becoming a shunned caste largely doomed to death.

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